Kerberos does not take the bait offered by Timber Wolf. Instead, he just walks by the hero, muttering, " We'll see how far your idealism lasts when your friends get slaughtered."Then, before anyone can respond, he is out and, a heartbeat later, gone.

So, what do our heroes do now?

---Prison----

Morticus shakes his head, grinning. " They might not...yet, anyway. But others can and will...they will tear down the walls of sanity and I get to watch this whole stinking pile of shit that is humanity tear itself apart. You know, I almost wish you knew what you were up against, just to see how your mind would crack."

---Highway----

They have, indeed and the sands immediately stop any motion that still presents danger. The only vehicle not slowing down is the van which means that its stop comes very sudden. None of the passengers inside have used seatbelts...resulting in the almost comical sight of the front pane shattering under the impact of five garishly clad luchadores who slam into the sands...miraculously unharmed!

Valkyrie looks at Trissa, catching the wink. Not sure exactly what she plans to do, Valkyrie would prefer not to show any kind of dissention and simply trust the amazon. After all, if they did face off against Morticus in the future and he thought her a coward, he's be in for a rude shock.

She nods and leaves the room. Once out of the room, she looks around and she flags down an officer. "Can you direct me to someone who can tell me about the girl in the other cell?"

Gloom hovers near the genie wizard. As he speaks shadows coagulate around the luchadores to utter darkness, but with subtle manipulation, somehow TEO is still able to see. Gloom himself isn't hindered by the darkness at all. "You should give up now..."

Morticus grin turns truly predatory. " Oh, an innocent soul, then? How sweet...My employers would love her..." he stands up, moving towards the glass, the runes covering it glowing with a greenish light as they keep him at bay. " But you...you are different. Hardened...it would take so much longer to break you..."

The officer frowns as he thinks for a moment. " Oh, yes...nothing special, really. Her name's Lucy Farrows. Apparently she's got a minor magic talent and attempted to resurrect a zombie from a veteran's grave on a dare. We kept her here to protect her from possible magical backlash while we wait for her mother to pick her up. Kids...they really shouldn't mess with that stuff..." He shakes his head.

---Highway----

The two heroes are met with a salvo of insults and denials in mexican Spanish while the five brothers seem to...organize themselves without being able to see each other, doing a concerted effort to run out of the cloud, all headed in the very same direction...which is away from the voices and over the now-parked cars, jumping, sprinting and somersaulting like world-class athletes...

"Some people just have less tolerance for depravity than others." Trissa shrugged. "On the other hand, I doubt that you have what it takes to give me a bad night's sleep, much less break me." She stepped right up to the glass and stared into his eyes. "What can you do that would threaten a true Amazonian warrior's soul?"

" I could show you the true darkness that lies beneath this illusion you take for reality", Morticus hisses, apparently very much enjoying having an audience. " I could peel away layer upon layer of your very soul and drag you, screaming and bleeding into the endless wastes beyond the gates of sanity where the true inheritors of all that is lie in wait."

Gloom is slightly disappointed that they are so easily escape his summoned darkness. On his wink the darkness hardens to a leash and he tries to catch one of the fleeing Mexicans. Somehow his dark emotions seem to enhance his powers...

Apex ducked low and maneuvered through the museum, coming to the entrance. He paused a moment, to look around until he spotted someone. "Hey wolfie try to get dem on da radio again, we done here right?"

He waved his massive hand as he strode towards the pretty young officer, his long stride had him beside her side in two large steps. "Five-five-five ... uhhh ... eight-nine-four-seven ... yeah, dats it." He leaned closer grinning, "Jack want you to call him, but him too puny to ask pretty girl. Hur. Hur."

He turned his back and walked towards Timber Wolf. "Dey coming to pick us up, or Apex gotta find a taxi dat'll fit him?"

"If sacred spaces are spared the ravages of war -- make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war -- make all peoples holy." -- Norrin Radd (Silver Surfer: Requiem; J. Michael Straczynski)

Hazid frowns."Thou have chosen thy destiny sen." The sands threaten to grab all the luchadores again, but this time it rises up, creating a massive wall of sandstone blocks ahead on the highway. "Quickly Gloom, capture sem"

Using Illusions in the sand, rank 7 illusion, Three senses types, Area 125 cft, independent 6.

"In the case of Trissa and Valkyrie that probably just means they're still working the interrogations. But, with Gloom and TEO it means that they are either someplace the comms don't reach or they're in trouble.

"Let's see if we can find out which."

He activates his comm, "Watcher, if possible I need locations on Gloom and The Enlightened One. We'll need transport to them asap if you can locate them."

Here comes the Dog!Stong and brave!Here comes the Dog!The day he will save!